ALICE: Focus on People with Disabilities
This ALICE report focuses on people with disabilities. It shows nearly 40,000 people with disabilities in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties — 49% of all people with disabilities — lived in a household with income below the ALICE Threshold of Financial Survival in 2019.
Key Findings
- Almost half (49%) of people with disabilities in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties lived in households experiencing financial hardship in 2019. While 16% were below the FPL, an additional 33% — more than twice as many — were ALICE.
- While there are people below the ALICE Threshold across all education levels, 70% of people with disabilities with a high school education or lower lived in households with income below the ALICE Threshold in 2019, compared to 48% of people with disabilities with at least a high school diploma.
- Having a job does not guarantee financial stability, but 35% of people with disabilities in the labor force were below the ALICE Threshold in 2019, compared to 61% of people with disabilities not working.
source: 2022 ALICE Report: Focus on Children
Find out more about the ALICE: Focus on Disabilities report for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties by viewing our fact sheet.
Learn More
- The ALICE People with Disabilities Data Dashboard, to dig deeper into related topics, demographics, and sub-state geographies
- Resources related to people with disabilities and financial hardship, including the references linked in this Research Brief, as well as additional resources that offer important context and even deeper analysis
- The Pandemic Divide: An ALICE Analysis of National COVID Surveys (2021) and other resources on the ALICE and COVID-19 webpage, to see the impacts of the pandemic on ALICE
- The ALICE Wage Tool, to explore wage levels by geography and occupation